Microsoft has previewed a Command Tab (a.k.a "Ribbon") user interface in the pre-announcement for Office 12. Command Tabs can surplant menus, toolbars, pallettes, task panes and to some extent wizards. Using a combination of JRibbon and SwiXML, I prototyped a command tab-style GUI for my company's editor product. Here's a little experience report.

Selections and comments from the recent W3C Schema Experience Workshop. I bet you won't be seeing Ads for XSD tools or systems with slogans "extremely disheartening", "difficult and sometimes impossible", and "trouble-shooting can get quite complicated"

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About incompatible uses of XML Schema

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Sports Illustrated poll suggests that Americans are more tolerant than many give them credit for

Docheads versus dataheads is obsolete: the real distinction is between annotators and atomists

Simply naming a set of W3C /OASIS/ IETF recommendations will not produce interoperability.

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OASIS is stuggling with a basic issue here: is the US patent system so out-of-control now that it is difficult for any standards body to operate?